Ryan Smith, over at RapidWeaver Classroom has done another bang up tutorial showing the ins and outs of the seyDoggy PlayMore theme. Ryan covers the use of each ExtraContent area as it pertains tothe PlayMore theme and also demonstrates some more tricks with Loghound.com Pluskit, including adding a Contact form to the bottom of your page and adding a YourHead Carousel page above the content. Also covered in this tutorial is how to add a custom header image using RWmultitool Lite.

RapidWeaver Classroom HD Screencast: The PlayMore Theme and ExtraContent Feature from Ryan Smith on Vimeo.

Tags: PlayMore, RapidWeaver Classroom, seyDesign, seyDoggy

Ryan Smith over at RapidWeaver Classroom was awesome enough to make a VERY detailed movie about many aspects of the seyDoggy Gotem theme and ExtraContent. Ryan does an incredibly thorough and level headed job of outlining each ExtraContent area, some nifty tricks with Pluskit from Loghound.com, attaching images with assets and much more.

You might also notice a little promotional deal at the movies intro. You would be wise to take advantage of that kind of offer.

RapidWeaver Classroom HD Screencast: The Gotem Theme and ExtraContent Feature from Ryan Smith on Vimeo.

Tags: Gotem, RapidWeaver Classroom, seyDesign, seyDoggy

Some really exciting ExtraContent news sprang up over the weekend. First, an ExtraContent-ish sort of theme popped up from Rapid Refills called D Scribe. While Nick, Rapid Refills developer, doesn’t go so far as to call it ExtraContent enabled, it does use similar technology. Nick prefers to call his implementation “Blurbs” instead, but the idea is the same by adding extra content in one place and having it show up in another. Perhaps if we all lean on him a little, he’ll make the implementation common to what we now enjoy in ExtraContent making the experience a familiar one… Anyhow, you can join the RapidWeaver forum discussion here.

The next ExtraContent enabled theme to pop up over the weekend was Bohemian from RapidWeaver developer extraordinaire, Henk Vrieselaar. Bohemian is an official ExtraContent theme that makes use of 4 ExtraContent areas; one above and below the main content area (useful for blogs, photo albums, contact forms and Kwix pages without much in the way of content options), one above the footer and one in the sidedbar. In addition to ExtraContent Henk has packed this theme full of many other options such as over 30 header options and effects, over 60 background options for various areas of the page, font control, width variations, banner zest integration and much more. Henk has poured a lot into this theme so you owe it to yourself to check it out. Join the discussion on the RapidWeaver forum here.

Tags: Henk Vrieselaar, News, Rapid Refills

Today seyDoggy released an update to their Gotem theme, adding one more ExtraContent to allow the insertion of text into the “traditional” sidebar area.

There was numerous requests for the ability for users to add content in their RapidWeaver sites to the “traditional” sidebar area in our Gotem theme.

By default, content added to the sidebar field in RapidWeaver gets added to the area just beside the header image. With the new third ExtraContent area you can now add sidebar content to it’s traditional location along side the main content area.

This tutorial covers how to utilize the new ExtraContent area to get text into the traditional sidebar location.

seyDoggy Gotem ExtraContent are #3 from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: Gotem, seyDesign, seyDoggy

seyDesign.com releases their latest theme, PlayMore which utilizes three ExtraContent areas.

Check out the tutorial video which outlines the basic addition of content into those ExtraContent areas.

seyDoggy PlayMore ExtraContent introduction from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: PlayMore, seyDesign, seyDoggy

This one comes courtesy of SupportCasts.com and goes over a few ExtraContent basics from the seyDoggy Gotem theme and RWT’s Buzz theme.

Tags: Buzz, Gotem, RapidWeaverThemes, RWT, seyDesign, seyDoggy

Here is the movie that started it all reposted here for posterity. Narrated by Alex the Android, this flick is as oddly entertaining as it is informative.

ExtraContent Feature Review from Adam Merrifield on Vimeo.

Tags: information, overview

seyDoggy launches ExtraContent.info, a community based site designed to help promote the usage of ExtraContent in content management systems. We hope to be able to share many tutorials, tips and tricks when using ExtraContent.

But we don’t want to do it alone! Are you a developer or enthusiast using ExtraContent? Why not help us out? Make movies, write tutorials, promote your ExtraContent enabled product… it doesn’t matter, we will welcome the help. Get in touch with me by submitting a post to the ExtraContent Google Group.

Until then, stay tuned. We have more coming down the pipe!

Tags: introduction, News